Kindergarten Jasper John's alphabet collages

 

Kindergarten Jasper John's alphabet collages

I found this great idea from Cassie Stephens art blog. You can find the original post here cassiestephens.blogspot. I always like to include artists so we discussed the art of Jasper Johns and viewed his alphabet collages. 

I provided each student with a 12" x 18" multi media paper with 28 boxes copied onto them. They used rubbing plates and neon construction paper crayons to create textures into each box. Lastly, they used neon tempera cakes to paint over each box. I had to really rush my kindergarteners so they could put the letters on the art during their next art class. If you don't have rubbing plates you can use cardboard squares and draw designs on them with glue. Cassie shows you how to make them on her blog. 

On day two I provided copies of the alphabet for students to copy the letters onto their papers with the paint daubers. I was so surprised on how well they did! They were careful and really enjoyed this process! Yeah! Just remind them to not squeeze the bottles. 

Thanks Cassie for the idea! 

kindergarten textured alphabet painting

Jasper Johns Inspired textured Alphabet lesson 

I found this great lesson from the talented art teacher Cassie Stephens. You can find her original lesson here 

https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-art-room-kindergarten-alphabet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+CassieStephens+(Cassie+Stephens)

Here is a video of me teaching it. 

 I copied a grid onto 12" x 18" multi-media paper for each student on the copy machine.  Each paper contained 32 boxes. When the students copy they alphabet at the end of the lesson they will be allowed to add additional shapes to complete the boxes. 

We viewed many examples of Jasper Johns letters and alphabet paintings and then got straight to work. 

Students traced their grid with a neon oil pastel and then used rubbing plates to create textures in each box. 

After each box was completed they painted each box with watercolors to create an oil pastel resist. 

This was pre COVID and when the kids were allowed to have art in the art room. I started this lesson right before COVID hit so the kiddos didn't get to finish them. 

This year with my kindergarteners we used crayons to rub the textures in each box. I can now have one class come to the art room every day so the kiddos did the rubbings in their classrooms and when they came to the art room they added watercolors and instead of using paint daubers they used black paint sticks. The paint sticks worked better on the wet paper. 

Thanks Cassie for the great idea! 

Wild Things 1st grade

Wild Things 1st grade art lesson

My demonstration video. This is one of my very first videos so I was just learning how to record. 

This is one of my favorite projects and the kids love it. I saw a lesson similar to this on http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/. I just changed it a bit. 

I showed the ebook Where the Wild Things Are on youtube.com. We talked about the various ways Maurice Sendak came up with the ideas for his Wild Things. We looked at the textures and discussed how we could create the textures in our art. 
The children drew half of a monster on a folded piece of paper in pencil. I went around and checked the students papers because  some children had difficulty with this concept. This was a good time to discuss symmetry After they were given the okay from me they traced their monster with a black crayon. 

The children then folded their paper over so the monster was inside their paper. They took  a penny and rubbed the crayon side. I keep pennies in little jars for each table. Yes, some children steal them thus why I don't use quarters! Make sure to tell them to use the penny sideways. 

After they rubbed the crayon side they opened it back up and traced over it. They were so amazed at this!

Students then took rubbing plates and used the side of crayons without the paper. I soaked the crayons in water to get the paper to come off. They also had to decide what kind of environment their monster lived in. 

Students were so excited about their Wild Things that they wanted to write about them in their classroom!